St. Paul police officer is accused of assault in Maplewood

This guy needs to be thrown off the police force and take residency in a jail.

come on over to the sheriff's office

Police dogs are dangerous animals. They should be placed with a professional officer who understands this. When trained even the rejected dogs have an attitude problem. I personally don't like dogs trained for this purpose.

Bravo for the officer who listened to her and had her husband arrested. This gives faith to the other wives who have suffered situations like this. Hopefully they have given her a protective order to make sure there are more serious ramifications if he goes near her before this is settled. Other people, including his friends will try to talk her out of pursuing the charges. It is lonely road when you accuse a man in blue of domestic abuse. I hope she sticks with it.

This is the result when Top Cops like Harrington and Fletcher try to be the "buddy" of their officers. This wouldn't have gone over well with Finney. That's why all these podting losers hate him so much. With guys like Fletcher, you have guys like Mark Naylon. We're not talking childhood friends or former associates. No, we're talking best friends and best man in Fletcher's wedding. Big diff!

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Harrington was never a leader. We the taxpayer deserve much better!

Just another out of control cop walking the streets.

Of course everyone enjoys the constitutional protections and assumption of innocent until proven guilty EXCEPT police officers. With them, F the constitution and bill of rights that all citizens, except police officers, are protected by. Everyday dozens of men are arrested in St. Paul for domestic assault and rape and child molestation and strangeling and you don't read about it the paper.

is it just me or are the police getting more and more violent in these times?....guess the power goes to their head huh?..too bad he didn't take his anger out on some meth head in his own neighborhood instead of his spouse....

I say we not pass judgment till we hear his side of the story. Who knows what goes on behind closed doors.

One of MN's finest at it again? Wouldn't be surprised if they give him a lesser charge, if any at all.

Chief Finney would not have allowed this. We need his tough law and order style back! The community deserves this great leader and nothing less.

Women are the most honest and wonderful people on this planet. What if, this is her main weapon to get him. Let's wait until the end.

Betty wrote:

I say we not pass judgment till we hear his side of the story. Who knows what goes on behind closed doors.

Many years ago,(1983)after serving my former husband with a protection order, I went to 16 weeks of Domestic Abuse Couseling. In that class we were told that the occupation with the highest instance of abuse was "Police Officer". Right then I realized why this issue had gone soooooo long without any significant changes. The subject is more in the open now but there are still police doing it....including the the guy that shot Fong Lee. It was just recently in the paper about him. Both of these guys are supposed to be Peace Officers.

As far as not knowing what went on behind closed doors...to me that is outright blaming the VICTIM. It doesn't matter what the REASON this cop did it, just that he did. He above anyone else should know to walk away when things get out of hand. Isn't that what they tell REGULAR abusers to do?
I hope the Blue doesn't go up on this woman.

Blah Blah Blah wrote:

One of MN's finest at it again? Wouldn't be surprised if they give him a lesser charge, if any at all.

You mean like a lot of other citizens who get the charge reduced from a Domestic Assault to a standard 5th Degree Assault? Cops aren't the only ones that get charges lowered or amended. I was checking the court documents on a lot of my DWI arrests from the past two years. All of the suspects were convicted, but most of the 2nd or 3rd Degree DWI arrests were lowered by one degree. The courts are so busy nowadays that they actively seek plea deals with those that are charged with crimes to save money on going to trial and increasing their conviction rate.

You can't sit there and say that Officer Rinehart is going to get his charges lowered or dismissed just because he's a police officer. It happens a majority of the time (at least in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties).

I wonder if John Doe was arrested in Mplwd, Mnpls or St. Paul last night for domestic assault? Where is the story about him? Didn't make the news WOW SHOCKING!

Let's hear his side of the story as well before we all crucify him.

She pushed and he pushed back.

Sean wrote:

Women are the most honest and wonderful people on this planet. What if, this is her main weapon to get him. Let's wait until the end.

Wow....hit YOUR woman lately buddy? Your few words sound like you don't like women much.

back up wrote:

She pushed and he pushed back.

Officers Rinehart & Anderson above anyone else should know to walk away when things get out of hand. NOT PUSH BACK. Isn't that what they tell REGULAR abusers to do?

Do they get different rules because they are Police Officers?

Even if SHE did push first, he should just walk away. Not do what other people get arrested for. We don't need to wait and see. For what, the typical excuses of ALL abusers. Like my alltime favorite from my past "you make me do it"

Oh Danny Boy wrote:

is it just me or are the police getting more and more violent in these times?....guess the power goes to their head huh?..too bad he didn't take his anger out on some meth head in his own neighborhood instead of his spouse....

Do you think that the power is going to their heads? Or perhaps it's the pressure of working the mean streets of Saint Paul and seeing sleezebags who wreak violence constantly, walk on lesser charges or get off completely. I'm not saying that this would justify violence on his part but walk a mile or two in his shoes first before passing final judgement.

Karen wrote:

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Officers Rinehart & Anderson above anyone else should know to walk away when things get out of hand. NOT PUSH BACK. Isn't that what they tell REGULAR abusers to do?
Do they get different rules because they are Police Officers?
Even if SHE did push first, he should just walk away. Not do what other people get arrested for. We don't need to wait and see. For what, the typical excuses of ALL abusers. Like my alltime favorite from my past "you make me do it"

And its sad that women have to go to a battered shelter to learn to shut up and walk away.